... The CHANGE from SUMMER to WINTER WEATHER. How Stormy Weather Begins to Increase in October and Culminates in January With a view to testing in some measure the probable number of fine moonlight nights in the forthcoming months, we have prepared a special chart showing how storms increase after the equinoxes (September 21 and March 21). This chart has been compiled from reports from eleven ...

... . WHERE THE REVERSE AND SUBSEQUENT ADVANCE AT MANDANNA KACH TOOK PLACE This view is taken looking up the valley of a tributary of the Gonial River. Mandanna Each, where the British- Indian force suffered such heavy casualties, is sing the bank of the river to the right of the 'picture. Troops are seen advancing from the Dera Ismail Khan plain towards Murtaza (to the left) and Kujuri Kafch and ...

... PROCESSION to the ABBEY-- ARMISTICE DAY, 1920. DRAWN BY D. MACPHERSON V TO THE CENOTAPH AND TO THE ABBEY ON ARMISTICE DAY buried with full honours, to the sound of guns booming the last salute to the Dead. For the benefit of those of our readers who may be in Whitehall and who are strangers to this public centre of London, we append the plan given in the right-hand bottom corner of the picture ...

... THE WRANGEL DISASTER in the CRIMEA. The Bolshevik Advance into the Peninsula and the Complete Withdrawal of the White Troops. THE LAST BLOW The collapse of General Wrangel's army in the Crimea first began to be im minent about a fortnight or three weeks ago, when the Red army began heavily mas sing forces for an attack against the Perekop lines. This attack began as an en veloping movement ...

... THE SUCCESS OF THE RIGID AIRSHIP. Zeppelin's Theories Vindicated uThe Sphere's Pioneer Work By R. P. Hearne I have waited for R 34 to make her double trip across the Atlantic before dealing with this subject, as past experience had demonstrated that if any failure had attended the project there would be many critics calling out, These wretched gas bags again! It is only a few short years ...

... ON THE MYSTERY RIVER OF TIBET. The Salween River Newly Pictured and Described by Captain F. Kingdon Ward With the ex ception of the Brah maputra and the Irrawaddy, no big river of Asia has given rise to so much speculation amongst geographers as the Salween. It is still the mystery river 01 noet, ior unime tne two rormer, its promems are Dy no means solved yet. Its source no man knows, and its ...

... Britain s Future in the Air. BiHiggo^Caeiaeiml F. ]R0 C. (G5Pves9 C.B.P C.MoGo, BoS.O. (Formerly Director of Flying Operations at the Air Ministry) Germany and Other European Powers Forge Ahead with Commercial Flying whilst Britain Lags Woefully Behind, Coming in a Bad Seventh in the Race for Peace-time Aerial Supremacy General Groves, who was formerly Director of Flying Operations at the Air ...

... AN AMERICAN SUGGES- TION with regard to TRUE and FALSE ANTI-SUB MARINE STRATEGY From The Scientific American, June 30, 1917 Let us suppose that a de strovercan effective.y patrol 20 sq. miles of surface; that is to say, a square measuring approxi mately 4½ miles on the side. Let the problem be to patrol the approaches to the Eng lish Channel and the Irish Sea. On the chart draw a line, say, ...

... T t is clear that at the moment of writing (November 5) events of great, very possibly of supreme import ance, are occurring upon the Western front. Owing to exigencies of space we are unable to do more than mention them in this week's issue. On the Champagne-Lorraine front the First American and the Fourth French Armies opened on November 1 a fresh advance, the results of which were to clear ...

... THE PROBLEM OF THE WESTERN FRONT The Second and Third Phases After the Great Break. THE BREAKING OF THE LINE PHASE II.-- TENTH DAY We can now show the result of the double attack upon the entrenched line at the end of three days. Two wide gaps have been made in the line. Black's centre is nearly surrounded; his wings are cut off and being forced in opposite directions by the superior White ...

... . The latest aggression of the persecuted Bolsheviks has been upon Persia, a country which no one can well describe as strong or provocative of attack. The Bolsheviks have for some time been practi cally supreme in Turkestan. The collapse of Denikin's forces left them dominant in the North Caucasus; and the internment of Denikin's Caspian flotilla ensured their command of the great inland ...

... THE UPPER AND NETHER WORLDS OF PICCADILLY CIRCUS. REMARKABLE VIEWS OF THE EXTENSIVE UNDERGROUND WORK OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY BY WHICH ESCALATORS WILL BE INSTALLED IN THE TUBE STATION AT THE HUB OF LONDON'S WEST END This composite picture shows I the amazing activities beneath the surface at Piccadilly Cir cus, where the Underground Railway is establishing the escalator system The Bowels of ...